1 year later EE/LL still without Clinic, Fire station
These are among the reasons political aspirant, Mr Hipolito D. Penn, believes the current District Representative, Deputy Premier, Dr Kedrick D. Pickering (R7), cannot be allowed to continue to represent the jurisdiction when residents take to the polls at the upcoming General Elections.
Mr Penn in a recent interview with Virgin Islands News Online lamented that “the clinic in Long Look remains closed up to today, just days away from the one year anniversary of Hurricane Irma.”
He reminded that this obtains in the District, despite the fact the District Representative, “is a doctor of medicine.”
According to Mr Penn, "there are many seniors and other citizens of our community who depends on the clinic for health services as it is a central location in Long Look, it is just in walking distance and with ease of accessibility."
Disenfranchisement
Mr Penn told this publication another of the woes affecting those living in the District rests with the fact a vital part of the infrastructure in the community—the fire station—remains closed.
The facility is now being over-run by vegetation as a result of the neglect.
He said too, the Community Centre that was badly damaged after the hurricanes have also not seen any repairs undertaken to date.
“This is another failure of the current Representative of the 7th District,” Mr Penn insists.
Mr Penn confirmed his bid to contest the 2019 General Elections, in an exclusive interview with this publication saying, the decision is primarily rooted in the fact that the representation provided for the past 20-years by Dr Pickering, has in fact led to a disenfranchisement of the people residing in the District
The 50-year-old political activist told this publication Dr Pickering has failed to address the needs of the people of the District across industries, including fishing, tourism and farming, in addition to the neglect seen in the provision of social services such as health care.
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NO CUSTOMS
NO IMMIGRATION
NO CLINIC
NO SCHOOL
NO FIRE STATION
JUST AN ETERNAL COAL PIT KILLING US AND OUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN. I am ashamed BC I help to get them there so I deserve some licks. Baaaah baaaaah
True, rapid recovery, resiliency, reprogramming, replanning.......etc is needed. Nonetheless, it (BVI) should not do things as it did in the past, expecting a different result. In the past, it does not seem as if the BVI was operating from a national development plan. It needs a blue print, a national development plan going forward. It needs to be proactive.